by Terry Levy | Nov 12, 2019 | Attachment
This is the first in a series of articles about the critical role of experience in shaping attachment patterns and in healing unhealthy or negative patterns once they have formed. The experience of a healing relationship, whether it is between a therapist and client,...
by Terry Levy | May 25, 2018 | Theory & Research
This look at the developing brain is the fourth part of a series we have titled “Concepts and Skills of Parenting.” It is adapted from the book Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love. To read Part 1 — which provides a look...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Dec 13, 2014 | Attachment
The limbic system is the social and emotional part of the brain, governing attachment, nurturing instincts, learning, implicit memory (preverbal, unconscious), motivation, stress response, and the immune system. The circuits of the limbic brain are wired together...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Dec 13, 2014 | Attachment, Uncategorized
Neurobiology: In utero and early attachment experiences significantly affect the wiring of the brain, because the young child’s brain grows more than at any other time in life, and relationships shape the developing brain. Lack of secure attachment and traumatic...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Mar 30, 2014 | Parenting, Psychology, Theory & Research
Researchers have used fMRI scans to investigate which regions of the brain are activated during parenting—how our brains are wired for rearing children, and how parenting can shape our brains. They found that humans’ neural circuitry is primed to respond to babies in...
